[Rdiff-backup-bugs] [bug #25684] Lost ownership data even when using --preserve-numerical-ids option

[anonymous]

URL:
  <http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?25684>

                 Summary: Lost ownership data even when using
--preserve-numerical-ids option
                 Project: rdiff-backup
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Mon Feb 23 19:43:43 2009
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

It seems like rdiff-backup does not preserve uid:gid for each file even when
--preserve-numerical-ids its present. See this example:

address@hidden:~$ ls -al test
total 8
drwxr-xr-x  2 fmmarzoa devel    4096 2009-02-23 20:07 .
drwxr-xr-x 77 fmmarzoa fmmarzoa 4096 2009-02-23 20:07 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 fmmarzoa devel       0 2009-02-23 20:07 testfile

I've a directory called "test" with uid:gid as fmmarzoa:devel, and a testfile
within the directory with same ownership. Now I backup it with:

address@hidden:~$ rdiff-backup --preserve-numerical-ids test test_backup
address@hidden:~$ ls -la test_backup
total 12
drwxr-xr-x  3 fmmarzoa fmmarzoa 4096 2009-02-23 20:07 .
drwxr-xr-x 78 fmmarzoa fmmarzoa 4096 2009-02-23 20:10 ..
drwx------  3 fmmarzoa fmmarzoa 4096 2009-02-23 20:10 rdiff-backup-data
-rw-r--r--  1 fmmarzoa fmmarzoa    0 2009-02-23 20:07 testfile

So in fact, ownership information has been lost. Obviously restoring just
doing a "cp test_backup test" will not recover the ownership data, but restore
command neither!:

address@hidden:~$ rdiff-backup -r now test_backup test
address@hidden:~$ ls -la test
total 8
drwxr-xr-x  2 fmmarzoa fmmarzoa 4096 2009-02-23 20:07 .
drwxr-xr-x 78 fmmarzoa fmmarzoa 4096 2009-02-23 20:12 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 fmmarzoa fmmarzoa    0 2009-02-23 20:07 testfile


address@hidden:~$ rdiff-backup -V
rdiff-backup 1.1.15






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